Alex Forbes-Calvin

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Alex Forbes-Calvin is a freelance writer and photographer, mostly operating within the games industry. Over his career, he has written for the likes of MCV, Eurogamer, GamesIndustry.biz, The Observer, VGC and Esquire. That's on top of writing books for Dark Horse on RuneScape, Assassin's Creed, Dead Island 2 and more.

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News Apr 11th, 2018

It looks like SteamSpy might have to shut down

Changes to Steam's privacy policy look to have killed the data firm

News Apr 10th, 2018

Bossa Studios' World Adrift is launching into Early Access next month

Firm plans to be in the alpha release plan for six months

News Apr 10th, 2018

Keywords adds music services to its offering with Cord and Laced acquisitions

Money and music to someone's ears

News Apr 10th, 2018

LawBreakers studio Boss Key's next game is 80s-styled free-to-play battle royale game Radical Heights

Launches into Early Access today, will be there for about a year

News Apr 10th, 2018

Updated: No, GTA V isn't the most profitable game ever - but it's still a massive industry success story

90m copies sold and $6bn in revenue - not bad, Rockstar

News Apr 10th, 2018

Ubisoft eyes 5bn players following Tencent deal

CEO Yves Guillemot wants to grow the French firm's audience in the next decade

List Apr 9th, 2018

What we have learnt at London Games Festival 2018

Everything you might have missed from the line-up of summits and forums

News Apr 9th, 2018

Another Overwatch League player has been banned, this time due to alleged sexual misconduct with a minor

Boston Uprising player Jonathan "DreamKazper" Sanchez banned for exchanging sexual messages with a 14 year-old girl

News Apr 9th, 2018

PUBG back at No.1 in the Steam charts as Far Cry 5 drops to second place

Skyrim VR debuts in fourth place

Feature Apr 6th, 2018

Five years and 100,000 games later: Itch.io founder Leaf Corcoran tells us about the indie marketplace's evolution

"I started to realise that people liked our stance and what we were doing we have a voice in the industry among indies. It's good for us to take that and promote content"

News Apr 6th, 2018

Boss Key moves on from LawBreakers

"The fact is LawBreakers failed to find enough of an audience to generate the funds necessary to keep it sustained in the manner we had originally planned for and anticipated"

News Apr 6th, 2018

"Diversity is good for business and we should do all we can to recruit, retain and promote talented women"

UKIE and TIGA say that now is the time for companies to act on the clear disparity in their work force

News Apr 6th, 2018

The Division studio is reportedly making a battle royale game

Development started in January, firm has already cooked something up

News Apr 6th, 2018

XCOM successor Phoenix Point is bringing in $100k in pre-orders each month

"This genre is a category that has been underserved, but you have to assume that that won't remain the case forever. People will come along and fill that gap... so we take nothing for granted."

News Apr 6th, 2018

Now the ESA is fighting for net neutrality

Trade body joins lawsuit against the FCC

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